Posted on 09/04/2014 4:15:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
Sixty-one years ago last month, the third-ever McDonald's opened in Downey, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles and home to Apollo, the third-ever NASA manned spaceflight program. McDonald's went to 119 countries from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Apollo went to the moon.
A man who witnessed much of this history is Ron Piazza, who owns the landmark McDonald's in Downey —the world's oldest-operating McDonald's— along with nine other golden-arched franchises in the area.
Piazza is something of a throwback. Plainspoken and serious, he is the type of business owner whose name and phone number are printed at the bottom of all the customer receipts...
"I started at a dollar an hour. Poverty is as severe as it was when I was making a dollar an hour. The minimum wage increase, frankly, hasn't reduced our poverty problem....
Do I think it’s fair that people live in poverty? Of course not. But I don’t know how you can say that business is responsible for that."
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.com ...
How many California companies do that? how many limousine liberals pay their employees like that?
This is how free refills came about. It was cheaper to have customers fill their own drinks unlimited rather than have the workers to staff inorder to sell the drinks.
Next will be the McAuto order and the McRobot Chef.
Employers should be making a list of those employees marching for $15.00 an hour minimum wage. Then if it goes through, those will be the employees who get laid off.
And ONLY PROPERTY OWNERS ALLOWED TO VOTE. Would cut out a lot of this crap, as it was intended to do.
>>>>Those who claim they want higher salaries for the working class should fight for an immigration shutdown.<<<<<
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spot on.
>>>>Those who claim they want higher salaries for the working class should fight for an immigration shutdown.<<<<<
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